From: Jonathan Hudson <jh+ruby-lang@...>
Date: 2008-04-26T02:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Help getting ruby-serialport to run in Windows XP

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00:51 -0500
Eduardo Aldaz-carroll <eduardo@aldaz-carroll.com> wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> I have not been able to make ruby-serialport in Windows XP.
> http://ruby-serialport.rubyforge.org/
> I have looked hard in the web and forums and have not been able to find
> help, although i have found many people that have been equaly
> unsuccesful.
> 
> It would be really great to have ruby-serialport work in Windows, it
> already works well in linux and cygwin (at least for me)
> 
> I have succesfully compiled for windows following the excellent
> instructions in:
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hoanga/2006/12/14/getting-a-ruby-c-extension-to-compile-on-windows/
> It essential to read Part II)
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hoanga/2006/12/19/getting-a-ruby-c-extension-to-compile-on-windows-part-2/
> 
> However no matter what i do when running the miniterm.rb example the
> program fails with:
> (eval):3:in `create': No such file or directory (Errno::ENOENT)
>         from (eval):3:in `new'
>         from miniterm.rb:11
> 

I've found that on the odd occassion I have to use serialport on
Win32, using the following:

Kernel::require 'serialport'

vice plain require, avoids its unhappiness with rubygems. 

Has no adverse affect on Linux.


-jonathan